Nonlinear dynamics of interfacial waves

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(84)90515-3zbMath0575.76026MaRDI QIDQ1064203

Henry C. Yuen

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(84)90515-3

zbMATH Keywords

irrotational flow; current jump; infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances; Kelvin-Helmholtz short wave instability; steady two- dimensional interfacial gravity wave of finite amplitude; subharmonic distortions of the eigenfunctions; three-dimensional instability for large amplitudes; two-dimensional instability for small amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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